sǔn HSK7

diminish, lose

(損) sǔn
damage verb
to decrease, lose, damage, or harm

This kind of behavior damages the collective honor.

caustic verb
mean, sarcastic, or nasty in speech or behavior (colloquial)

What he just said was really mean.

ridicule verb
to mock, deride, or speak sarcastically to someone (colloquial)

Don't put me down in front of everyone.

Sun hexagram verb
one of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching (Book of Changes), representing 'Decrease' (䷨)

The Sun hexagram is the 41st of the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.

Frequency

Character
Written text
911th most common 188.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,302nd most common 59.2 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.08 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
34.9 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+640D

Sources